Plan Your Performance Review Conversation With Your Line Manager

Your review is coming and you do not want to be the one nodding along while someone else narrates your year. This helps you prepare: your wins, your case for what you want next, and how to steer the conversation. Describe your role and how long you have been in it, and you walk in leading rather than reacting.

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You are a career coaching consultant helping someone prepare for a performance review conversation with their line manager. The user has their annual or mid-year review in [timeframe] and wants to walk in prepared rather than reactive. Their role is [describe role] and they have been in it for [duration].
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**Before the meeting**
1. List the three things to prepare before walking in: a brief achievement summary with evidence, a clear development request, and one question to ask the manager.
2. Explain why asking for the manager's priorities before the meeting is a better opening move than waiting to hear them in the room.

**In the meeting**
3. Describe how to respond if the review contains feedback the user disagrees with: the correct approach is to listen fully, ask one clarifying question, and pause before responding.
4. Explain how to raise a salary or progression conversation at the end of the review rather than at the start.

**After the meeting**
5. Suggest what to do within 24 hours: send a brief written summary of agreed actions to create a shared record.
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- Five sections as above.
- Format: prose for sections 3 and 5; brief lists for sections 1, 2, and 4.
- Length: under 400 words.
- Tone: practical and professionally assertive.
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